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恒星辐射带的斜压不稳定性

Baroclinic Instability in Stellar Radiation Zones

Leonid L. Kitchatinov

摘要:

恒压和恒密度的表面在差速旋转的恒星中并不重合。具有斜压层结的恒星辐射带可能是不稳定的。辐射区的不稳定性对于角动量输运、化学物质的混合以及可能的磁场的产生至关重要。本文对差动自转恒星的斜压不稳定性进行了线性分析。对任意形状的微分转动建立了线性稳定性方程,并对半径不均匀转动进行了数值求解。随着旋转差的增加,r-和g-模式的初始稳定的全球振荡平稳地转变为增长模式的斜压不稳定。因此,不稳定性可以被解释为对r-和g-模式激励的稳定性损失。恒星参数的区域,其中r-或g-模式优先激发的定义。斜压不稳定开始于小于1%的非常小的差异旋转。不稳定增长的特征时间约为1000个旋转周期。增长扰动具有动力学螺旋性。因此,在差动旋转辐射区中由斜压不稳定性引起的湍流产生磁场是可能的。

英文摘要:

Surfaces of constant pressure and constant density do not coincide in differentially rotating stars. Stellar radiation zones with baroclinic stratification can be unstable. Instabilities in radiation zones are of crucial importance for angular momentum transport, mixing of chemical species and, possibly, for magnetic field generation. This paper performs linear analysis of baroclinic instability in differentially rotating stars. Linear stability equations are formulated for differential rotation of arbitrary shape and then solved numerically for rotation non-uniform in radius. As the differential rotation increases, r- and g-modes of initially stable global oscillations transform smoothly into growing modes of baroclinic instability. The instability can therefore be interpreted as stability loss to r- and g-modes excitation. Regions of stellar parameters where r- or g-modes are preferentially excited are defined. Baroclinic instability onsets at a very small differential rotation of below 1%. The characteristic time of instability growth is about one thousand rotation periods. Growing disturbances possess kinetic helicity. Magnetic field generation by the turbulence resulting from baroclinic instability in differentially rotating radiation zones is, therefore, possible.

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